Wild Dreams of a New Beginning - Softcover

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811210758 ISBN 13: 9780811210751

Publisher: New Directions, 1988

Synopsis

Wild Dreams of a New Beginning brings together two acclaimed poetry volumes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, one of our "ageless radicals and true bards" (Booklist).

Who Are We Now? (1976), the first half of Wild Dreams, takes a long poetic look at the cultural fallout of a more radical time. This probing of the changes in the American psyche through the 1970s is carried forward in the second part, Landscapes of Living & Dying (1979)―a work originally hailed by Library Journal as "Ferlinghetti's strongest work since his 1957 A Coney Island of the Mind. . . . [He] pursues his disheveled muse with the innocent passion of a young beatnik, hiding his authentic erudition behind a comfortable guise of spontaneous composition."

About this title

About the Author:

In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti cofounded City Lights, the first paperback bookstore in the United States, a Mecca for millions. His Coney Island of the Mind is one of the best-selling volumes of poetry by any living American poet. Born in Yonkers, New York, in 1919, Ferlinghetti has received the Robert Frost Memorial Medal and the first Literarian Award of the National Book Foundation.

Review:

Adieu A Charlot (second Populist Manifesto)
Alienation: Two Bees
At The Bodega
The Billboard Painters
Clamshell Alliance
Cloning At The Hawk & Dove
Deep Chess
Director Of Alienation
Dissidents, Big Sur
Eight People On A Golf Course And One Bird Of Freedom
An Elegy To Dispel Gloom (assassinations Of Moscone & Milk)
The End Of Various Affairs
The General Song Of Humanity
Great American Waterfront Poem
The Heavy
Highway Patrol
Holiday Inn Blues
Home Home Home
Horses At Dawn
I Am You
Insurgent Mexico
The Jack Of Hearts
Look Homeward, Jack: Two Correspondences
Lost Parents
The Love Nut
The Majesty
Matinal
A Meeting Of Eyes In Mexico
Monet's Lilies Shuddering
The 'moving Waters' Of Gustav Klimt
A Nation Of Sheep
Olbers' Paradox
The Old Italians Dying
The Old Sailors
Overheard Conversations
People Getting Divorced
The Pied Piper Of Iron Mountain
Populist Manifesto
Reading Apollinaire ...
The Recurrent Dream
A River Still To Be Found
Rough Song Of Animals Dying
San Jose Symphony Reception
The Sea And Ourselves At Cape Ann
Seascape With Sun & Eagle
Short Story On A Painting Of Gustav Klimt
Snapshot Epiphany
A Sweet Flying Dream
Two Scavengers In A Truck, Two Beautiful People In Mercedes
Upon Reflection
A Vast Confusion
White On White
Wild Dreams Of A New Beginning
Wild Life Cameo, Early Morn
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0811210758
• ISBN 13: 9780811210751
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 129